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Volume 4, Issue 6, June -2017

Research Paper on Android based Home Automation using Raspberry pi

Ms. Akanksha Rajendra Surve1, Mr.Sampat Vaidya2
1
PG Research Student, Department of Masters in Computer Application, Bharti Vidyapeeth Institute of Managemnet and
Information Technology,Mumbai University , Cbd Belapur,India
2
Professor, Department of Masters in Computer Application, Bharti Vidyapeeth Institute of Managemnet and
Information Technology,Mumbai University , Cbd Belapur,India

Abstract—Intodaysworld automation is playing important role in each and every individualslife. Every individuals want
to get the work done fast ,savetime, put less efforts and make things more and more easier . Smarthome automation is a
way to have things around your home should work automatically. This automatically will save time.The purpose of this
research paper is to controlled all the home appliances through smart phone. The user can increase or decrease the
speed of fan,turnon or off light and many more appliances at home through smart phoneor tablet. So this is implemented
using Raspberry pi, and relay . The devices are controlledthrough WIFI or GSM.

Keywords-Raspberry pi, Relay circuit, Android, Wifi configuration,Userinterface.

I. INTRODUCTION

In today'sera of 21stcentury, manythings are becoming automated. Astechnology is advancing so houses are also
getting smarter. The houses are generally converting from normal switches to automatic controlled switches or system
which involves wireless control devices. Inearlier days conventional wall switches which are located in different parts of
the house makes it difficult for the user to go near them to operate. Even more it becomes more difficult for the elderly or
physically handicapped people to do so. Automationhelps to make the things more easier, save time, and reduce efforts.
Nowadaysmany wireless technologies are coming into existence. Home automation based on Internet is one of the most
popular home automation system in today'smarket. To control and monitor the houses through Internet requires big and
heavy computers. It becomes difficult to carry out. For this we are going to use mobile phones or tablet from which we can
controlled the appliances where ever we are. The different wireless communication standards such as Blue-tooth, Zig Bee,
GSM are used by the home automation system to exchange the data. Thishelps to reduce the installation cost, reduce
human efforts and becomes more scalable and flexible. Androidbased home automation helps the user to provide secure
and configurable home automation system.

II. LITERATURESURVEY

As per our survey, there exist many systems that can control home appliances using android basedphones/tablets. Each
system has its unique features. Manycompanies are providing a advanced and better home automation system.
Followingmodels describes the work being performed by others.
N. Sriskanthan explained the model for home automation using Blue toothvia PC. Butunfortunately the system lacks to
support mobile technology.
MuhammadIzharRamli designed a prototype electrical device control system using Web. They also set the server with
auto restart if the server condition is currentlydown.
Hasan has developed a telephone and PIC remote controlled device for controlling thedevices pin check algorithm has
been introduced where it was with cable network but not wireless communication.
An application is developed by Amul Jadhav in a universal XML format which can be easily ported to any other mobile
devices rather than targeting a single platform. Eachof these system has their own unique features and on comparison to
one another lacks some advancement.

III. PROPOSED SYSTEM

The proposed system is designed in such a way that it avoids the limitation of existing system. The proposed
which is designed are more secure, scalable and flexible. Thehome automation system is implemented using a raspberry pi,
android application from which you can control the devices and relay circuit. The wifi signalshould be strong so that
devices can control the appliances. Through relay the appliances can alsobe controlled The main purpose of the home
automation system is to provide a cheap, secureand open source home automation which can be able to control all the
home appliances through android device. The main advantages of home automation is that it provide security and
flexibilitythrough the android system, goodrange of scalability. It will help the user to save his or her effort. It will help to
save electricity when not in use.

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IV. SYSTEMARCHITECTURE

In home automation many new inventions and many standardizedefforts have been made . Sothe concept of home
automation is still young. Thearchitecture incorporate a wifi , relaycircuits , sensors, android application and raspberry pi
which is small size computer that is used for the purpose to manage the network and for remote access .Withthe help of
wifi network the user can communicate through raspberry pi and it can be configured according to our home system. The
wifi signal should be strong and the system is scalableand flexible. Thewifi is the medium to communicate with the
devices. Itis also configured and make services secured .Sudonano tc/network/interfaces are used for configuring wifi with
raspberry pi. Theserial data is connected to raspberry pi circuit which is coming from the wifi. Themain part of the home
automation is the raspberry pi circuit which is a credit card size computer and performs many functions. Forevery home
appliances , theraspberry pi is configured and the corresponding relay will get switch on and the device will function.
Homeautomation is required to have a very easy installation. The project consistof 4 main modules which are as follows:
1)Raspberry pi
2)Android Application
3)Wifi
4)Relay circuit

Figure 1. Architectureof the system

V. DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM

This sections describes the technologies used for developing the android based home automation. The platform used are
android to create user interface application from that the user can control the home appliance. In software part we are using
android to create user interface. In hardware part we are using raspberry pi and relay circuit.

5.1 ANDROID
User interface is created using android so that the user can easily controlled the home appliances. The android mobile
phone is used control the home automation system. There are various UI components and layout controls that allows to
build the graphical user interface. Android also provides other UI modules for special interfaces such as dialogs,
notifications, and menus. The interface should allow user to view device status and to control device.

5.2Raspberrypi
The Raspberry pi is small credit card size computer whose cost is less but it performs many function. It is a small single
board computer. Raspberry pi automates home appliances and allows user to control them easily through Internet from
anywhere over the world. Our proposed system . It is controlled by the modified version of Debian Linux optimized for the
arm architecture. The raspberry pi is the core of the home automation system are using model B ,700 MHz ARM processor
with 512 MB RAM. The setting up of rasp i consists of selecting raspbian OS from noobs package. The noobs package
consists of raspbian,Linux,pidora,open ELEC,risc OS operating system. After the OS selection we need to configure
raspberry-pi using Rasp i-config command. We can enter into rasp i desktop using start x command. To interface
raspberry-pi with the external world we can use WebIOPi.WebIOPi is a web application which allows to control
Raspberry Pi’s GPIO. It Support REST API over HTTP and CoAP .it can also handle more than 30 devices including
ADC, DAC, sensors. The webIoPi interface allows better control of rasp. Th following is the figure of Raspberry pi.

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Figure 2. Raspberrypi with devices.

5.3 Relay
A relay is like a switch which is electrically operated. Relays are used to control a circuit with low power signal or where
several circuits must be controlled by one signal. The relay circuit is given the output which is generated by the raspberry
pi. Due to this the relay will turn on and the device will work. NPN transistors is used in relay. According to the purpose
of our application the relays can be selected.

VI.CONCLUSION

The android based home automation provides easy and attractive interface and makes the system more flexible and
secured. We are using mobile devices to integrate with the home automation system. Wifi is used to communicate
between the raspberry and the android application to control the devices. The three main modules are raspberry pi, wifi,
relays. We have hidden the complexity of the project by making the application simple

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